Movies with the best endings (spoilers obviously - The Mist in OP)

The thread title gives away the movie I think has the 'best' ending, as in blow the your mind. Dale, Andrea, the Kid and the Librarian take a bullet to the head moments before the army saves the day. Hell, even Stephen King said something along the lines of he wished he had written that ending to the short story.

The first japanese horror I saw - the ghost/baddy wins in these movies!Jacob's LadderMonty Python and the Holy Grail - blew me away that they had the chutzpah to give us that end.BrazilI remember being blown away in a drained kind of way by the whole movie Un Coeur En Hiver, but especially at the end where there was no real happy ending for the characters. Reading the synopsis on imdb, I even missed some things it appears.

The Usual Suspects - "Twist" movies like the Sixth Sense didn't fool me, but damn, Verbal did.The Shawshank Redemption - One of those movies that just leaves you feeling uplifted at the end.Casablanca - "Lois, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."The Departed - Fuck yeah, Marky Mark.The Thing - Are they or aren't they? "Why don't we just wait here for a little while, and see what happens?" And then the soundtrack kicks in...The Life of Brian - Always look on the bright side of life ♫♪♫♪Rocky - "ADRIAN! ADRIAAAAAAAN!!!".The 13th Floor - Well, damn.

edit - good call below on REC/Quarantine. Gonna add Bellflower, Exam, Leon, Session 9, Unthinkable, True Romance. To clarify, for me 'best endings' are where I am either twisted up at the end, bad guys actually get away or I am just rooted to it the whole way through.

Casablanca - "Lois, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

Lois? Ah, you've got that one mixed up with Casablancaman, where our eponymous hero, working with the beautiful Capt. Lois Lane, foils Victor Luthor's dastardly plan to destroy the city with a giant [air_quotes]laser[/air_quotes].

If we are playing the opposites game maybe There is a scene in there though that I really like for sheer discomfort and no gore but holy hell, there is plenty of gore otherwise. Oh, and quite like the movie.

If we are playing the opposites game maybe There is a scene in there though that I really like for sheer discomfort and no gore but holy hell, there is plenty of gore otherwise. Oh, and quite like the movie.

If we are playing the opposites game maybe There is a scene in there though that I really like for sheer discomfort and no gore but holy hell, there is plenty of gore otherwise. Oh, and quite like the movie.

The Usual SuspectsThe 13th Floor12 Monkeys <-- Still one of the best time travel movies, IMO. It's one of the few that makes sense to me, in terms of solving paradoxes. There is one timeline, and everything that has happened, past, present, or future, is as it will always happen, in a way that prevents any variation of the grandfather paradox.

And not necessarily the best "twist" ending, but badass nonetheless:Return of the JediConan the Barbarian

I watched "Gangs of New York" again last night. That has a satisfying ending. The montage of old New York turning into modern New York, with the graves of Bill the Butcher and Priest Vallon weathering away in the foreground is great. *And* you top it off with the absolute last sounds over the end credits: traffic noise, sirens, and car alarms... the sound of modern NYC.

12 Monkeys <-- Still one of the best time travel movies, IMO. It's one of the few that makes sense to me, in terms of solving paradoxes. There is one timeline, and everything that has happened, past, present, or future, is as it will always happen, in a way that prevents any variation of the grandfather paradox.

This. I remember when I saw the movie for the first time, the ending left me flabbergasted.

Casablanca - "Lois, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

Lois? Ah, you've got that one mixed up with Casablancaman, where our eponymous hero, working with the beautiful Capt. Lois Lane, foils Victor Luthor's dastardly plan to destroy the city with a giant [air_quotes]laser[/air_quotes].

I read the original post and though WK was mixing in the Family Guy version on purpose.

Seriously? Picks like this have me WTF'ing. Shitty movie then everyone dies. That's a best ending you guys can pick? I am sad for you.

I view it as these people went on a massive killing spree and then escaped thinking they are home free only to get royally owned at the very end. Plus the way the music begins slowly and builds to a climax as they all die is pretty cool. Yeah the movie is shitty, but the ending is great.

Seriously? Picks like this have me WTF'ing. Shitty movie then everyone dies. That's a best ending you guys can pick? I am sad for you.

My list:

The MistPerfume: Story of a Murder

IMO, nothing else is in the same league.

It's a combination of how the movie takes you from the beginning and actually sheds an empathetic light over the band of obviously psychopathic, freakish murderers, and the inevitability of their imminent downfall. The cinematography of the scene, combined with the music overlay, is simply a superbly done piece of movie. I love it.